Carl Louton

Engineering Manager
Stow, MA
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Software Engineering leader with varied experience looking for new challenges in a leadership role. I have led and built empowered, empathetic, productive teams. I’m looking to lead teams, mentor engineers, and drive towards clear missions.
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Work Experience

Wayfair

Engineering Manager
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Jan 2019 - Mar 2023
  • Developed deploy systems that served thousands of daily deploys, which enabled production system maintenance and improvement measured in $100’s of millions of added revenue.
  • Pioneered cloud-native deploys using Google Cloud Run that enabled cloud cost reductions of up to 10%
  • Lead multiple teams of 3-8 engineers including quarterly planning, tech leadership, people management, and mentorship. Consistent 80-100 manager NPS.
  • Increased self service automation for code analysis tools that helped developers avoid bugs and reduced manual support toil by 70%

Natera

Software Engineering Manager
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May 2015 - Dec 2018
  • Delivered multiple user-facing UI applications that were a critical part of the bioinformatics pipeline that ran thousands of clinical tests daily.
  • Lead development of externally facing API and user interface that allowed external partner laboratories to utilize Natera’s products, representing $10’s of millions of revenue.
  • Managed globally distributed team working on multiple projects, this included people management and tech leadership.

Natera

Software Engineer
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Jul 2014 - May 2015
  • Developed statistician and expert analysis tool to confirm clinical results before they were sent to doctors. This tool helped deliver millions of results per month.

MITRE

Software Systems Engineer
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Dec 2008 - Jul 2014
  • Managed research for reconnaissance platforms for DoD.
  • Collaborated with civil authorities on Emergency Preparedness and Response systems
  • Identified new paths in next generation NextGen air traffic control interfaces.
  • Drove better internal document search system.

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
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Sep 2003 - Sep 2008

Skills

Technologies
Java NodeJS Python Spring SQL CSS C# GCP AWS
General
Mentorship Team management Cross functional stakeholder management Project and Product management Presenting to varied audiences Servant leadership Data-driven DORA metrics DevOps customer focused mindset unit testing test driven development